The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants with his female cousins to batting balls with the other boys. When his parents discover his innocent pastime, Arjie is forced to abandon his idyllic childhoo...
In the world of his large family - affluent Tamils living in Colombo - Arjie is an oddity, a 'funny boy' who prefers dressing as a girl to playing cricket with his brother. ...
Now a major motion picture. An evocative coming-of-age novel about growing up gay in Sri Lanka during the turbulent and deadly Tamil-Sinhalese conflict. Arjie is "funny." The second son of a privileged family in Sri Lanka, he prefers staging make-believe wedding pageants with his female cousins to b...